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Egypt’s army-backed Government has moved a step closer to banning the Muslim
Brotherhood.

Ahmed el-Boraie, the Social Solidarity Minister, plans to annul the
non-governmental organisation set up by the Brotherhood. Mohamed Morsi, the
leader of the Brotherhood and president of Egypt, was toppled in July.

It has been a steep fall for the Brotherhood, which had once imagined that it
could pioneer political Islam in the Middle East, converting the Arab Spring
into a new form of governance.

The whole Brotherhood leadership is in jail facing charges of incitement to
violence and even murder, and the new government has shut